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Literary festivals and contemporary book culture

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Literary festivals and contemporary book culture/ by Millicent Weber.
Author:	Weber, Millicent.
Published:	Cham :Springer International Publishing : : 2018.,
Description:	xiii, 272 p. :ill., digital ; : 22 cm.;
Contained By:	Springer eBooks
Subject:	Books and reading - Social aspects. -
Online resource:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71510-0
ISBN:	9783319715100

Literary festivals and contemporary book culture
Weber, Millicent.

Literary festivals and contemporary book culture[electronic resource] /by Millicent Weber. - Cham :Springer International Publishing :2018. - xiii, 272 p. :ill., digital ;22 cm. - New directions in book history. - New directions in book history..

1. Introduction -- 2. Recognising Literary Festivals -- 3. Patterns of Attendance and Experience -- 4. Online and Onsite: Intersections in Embodied and Digital Engagement -- 5. Festival as Policy Vehicle: Creative Industries, Creative Cities and the Creative Class -- 6. Festival as Field: Literary Festivals as Instantiations of Larger Cultural Spaces -- 7. Conclusion: Rules of the Game.

There has been a proliferation of literary festivals in recent decades, with more than 450 held annually in the UK and Australia alone. These festivals operate as tastemakers shaping cultural consumption; as educational and policy projects; as instantiations, representations, and celebrations of literary communities; and as cultural products in their own right. As such they strongly influence how literary culture is produced, circulates and is experienced by readers in the twenty-first century. This book explores how audiences engage with literary festivals, and analyses these festivals' relationship to local and digital literary communities, to the creative industries focus of contemporary cultural policy, and to the broader literary field. The relationship between literary festivals and these configuring forces is illustrated with in-depth case studies of the Edinburgh International Book Festival, the Port Eliot Festival, the Melbourne Writers Festival, the Emerging Writers' Festival, and the Clunes Booktown Festival. Building on interviews with audiences and staff, contextualised by a large-scale online survey of literary festival audiences from around the world, this book investigates these festivals' social, cultural, commercial, and political operation. In doing so, this book critically orients scholarly investigation of literary festivals with respect to the complex and contested terrain of contemporary book culture.

ISBN: 9783319715100

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-319-71510-0doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

1002995
Books and reading
--Social aspects.

LC Class. No.: Z1003 / .W43 2018

Dewey Class. No.: 028.9

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